A web design studio in Bedford

WE BUILD THE WEBSITE YOUR BUSINESS DESERVES.

Your business is a little ocean. We're a web design studio in Bedford, building sites for trades and local businesses that turn visitors into calls. We build it first, you see it at a preview link, and you only pay if you love it. From £49 a month with nothing up front.

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RECENT BUILDS

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The Leona Cookie Co website: a first site for a Surrey cookie business, built by LITTLEOCEANS

HAND-ICED COOKIES ◦ LIVE LEONA COOKIE CO

The Rushton Electrical website: an electricians' site rebuilt by LITTLEOCEANS

ELECTRICIANS ◦ LIVE RUSHTON ELECTRICAL

The One Man One Stump website: a stump grinding site rebuilt by LITTLEOCEANS

STUMP GRINDING ◦ COMMISSIONED ONE MAN ONE STUMP

A glazier's website concept, shown anonymised, rebuilt by LITTLEOCEANS

GLAZING ◦ CONCEPT ◦ ANONYMISED WRENFIELD GLASS

A removals firm's website concept, shown anonymised, rebuilt by LITTLEOCEANS

REMOVALS & STORAGE ◦ CONCEPT ◦ ANONYMISED ASHMOOR REMOVALS

A scaffolding company website concept, shown anonymised, rebuilt by LITTLEOCEANS

SCAFFOLDING ◦ CONCEPT MERIDIAN SCAFFOLDING

Some are clients, some we built unprompted to show an owner what their site could be.

WHAT WE DO

THE WHOLE JOB.
OFF YOUR PLATE.

Design & build

A website designed around your trade and built from scratch. No templates, no page builders, nothing off the shelf. Fast, sharp, and unmistakably yours.
Words that sell

We write the copy too. Plain English that sounds like you, not like a brochure. The kind of words that turn a visit into a phone call.
Launch & look after

We sort the boring bits. Domain, hosting, search engines, the lot. Then we stay on it if you want us to: £49 a month with the looking-after included, or a one-off price and it's yours.

HOW IT WORKS

One call, and you know the price before anything starts.

Tell us about the business, what you do and where you do it. There's nothing to pay to get going.

You watch it take shape at a private preview link.

Say what you think, change what you like. It's your site. Most builds take two to three weeks from that first call to going live.

Not happy? Walk away, and you've paid nothing.

Happy with it? It goes live and the £49 a month starts, with hosting, the domain and every change you ever need included. It's yours outright after a year.

WHY US?

Because small businesses get the worst websites. Big agencies aren't interested, template sites all look the same, and neither cares whether your phone rings. We do. Small business. Deep work.

The person building yours is me, Dan. I test software for a living and have done for fifteen years, finding the faults other people miss.

Dan at his desk in Bedford, working on a client's website across two monitors and a laptop — Dan, at the desk in Bedford where every site gets built.

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

NOT OUR WORDS.
THEIRS.

Dan has recently redesigned our website for us and we couldn't be happier! The website page is sleek, efficient and provides weekly analytics on page performance. Nothing was too much trouble and we're very happy with the outcome. We would highly recommend Little Oceans!

Rushton Electrical Electricians, Bedford. Read it on Google
Thanks for your help Dan with improving our website. Top service and good communication throughout the project. Thanks again.

Caliber Financial Management Patrick McAneney, Ampthill. Read it on Google

PROUD TO WORK WITH

CJ Kemble

WHAT IT COSTS

STRAIGHT PRICES.
PICK WHAT FITS.

Most people take the monthly plan: nothing up front, the looking-after included, and the site is yours after a year. If you'd rather pay once and own it from day one, that's here too. Either way you only pay when you love it.

£49 a month ◦ nothing up front
Nothing up front ◦ pay when you love it
Two to three weeks ◦ typical build

KEPT ALIVE

£49 a monthnothing up front

Less than one call-out. We build the site, you pay from the month it goes live, and we stay on it. New photos, new prices, new wording. Ring or message us, it's done.

Design, copy and build, with nothing to pay until it's live
Domain, hosting and search engines included in the £49
Changes whenever you need them, no limit and no counting
Stop whenever you like and there's nothing more to pay
Want to take the site with you? It's yours after a year, or make up the difference to a year's fees (£588) before that

Start for £49 a month

HANDED OVER

from £500once, no monthly fee

Same site, paid for once. We build it, we hand it over, and that's the end of the bill. Nothing leaves your account every month.

Design, copy and build
Domain, hosting and search engines sorted
Yours outright from day one, with nothing ongoing to pay
Add Kept Ticking later, from £29 a month, if you'd rather we kept an eye on it

Get a quote

BUILT BESPOKE

priced per jobthe big builds

Bigger sites, more pages, online booking. Tell us what you're after and we'll give you a straight number.

Everything in Kept Alive, monthly or one-off
As many pages as the job needs
Online booking, payments or quote forms
Email addresses on your own domain
Photo galleries and project archives
Built around how the business actually runs
Scoped and quoted before we start, fixed price as always

Let's talk

Wondering how it's this much less than the agency down the road? No account managers, no offices, no reselling somebody else's template with your logo dropped in the corner. AI does the heavy lifting on the first draft, and the person you spoke to on the phone does everything else: your real photos and wording, the checking and the changes. So you're paying for the build rather than the overhead behind it. The monthly plan is the same site on the same terms, spread out, with the looking-after included.

Not sure which fits? Neither are most people. Send us a message and we'll tell you straight, even if the answer is the cheap one.

WHAT A BAD SITE COSTS

A BROKEN WEBSITE
DOESN'T TELL YOU.

Nobody rings up to say your contact form isn't working. A bad website doesn't break loudly, it just stops earning, and everything looks normal from where you're standing.

WHAT YOU SEE
A quiet fortnight.

WORK THAT NEVER REACHES YOU

One enquiry form had been half moved between two form handling services, three of its four settings still pointing at the old one, so it may not have been delivering at all.
WHAT YOU SEE
Fewer calls than last year.

PEOPLE WHO NEVER FIND YOU

On one site the town it worked in appeared once, in the footer, in plain text. Not on the homepage, not on the services page.
WHAT YOU SEE
Plenty of visits. Hardly any enquiries.

PEOPLE WHO FIND YOU AND LEAVE

One homepage weighed 15.9MB and phones were sent every byte of it, on whatever signal they happened to have.

AUDITS & REVIEWS

ALREADY GOT A SITE?
FIND OUT WHAT IT'S COSTING YOU.

Not everyone needs a rebuild. Plenty of sites are three fixes away from working properly, and nobody has ever told the owner which three. We go through every page of yours and write up what we find in plain English.

You keep the findings whether you use us or not. If someone else built your site, the report is written so you can forward it to them exactly as it is.

There's a reason it's worth more than a scanner. The person going through your site tests software for a living and has done for fifteen years, wrote a book on finding faults, and is a moderator on the biggest public forum where software testers answer each other's questions, voted in by the testers themselves. Most website reviews are a web designer running a free scanner and printing what it says.

THE PROOF ◦ CASE STUDIES SEE THE WORK ▸

ALSO WORTH A LOOK

START A PROJECT

GOT A BUSINESS?
IT DESERVES BETTER THAN A TEMPLATE.

Tell us what you do and where you do it. We'll come back within a day with straight answers, and if it's a fit we start building. Most sites are live two to three weeks after that, and you pay nothing until you've seen it.

Ring us 07817 421 597 Email us [email protected]

WE BUILD THE WEBSITE YOUR BUSINESS DESERVES.

THE WHOLE JOB.OFF YOUR PLATE.

Design & build

Words that sell

Launch & look after

HOW IT WORKS

NOT OUR WORDS.THEIRS.

STRAIGHT PRICES.PICK WHAT FITS.

KEPT ALIVE

HANDED OVER

BUILT BESPOKE

A BROKEN WEBSITEDOESN'T TELL YOU.

WORK THAT NEVER REACHES YOU

PEOPLE WHO NEVER FIND YOU

PEOPLE WHO FIND YOU AND LEAVE

ALREADY GOT A SITE?FIND OUT WHAT IT'S COSTING YOU.